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Category: Gilles Deleuze
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The threefold biblical scandal of the personal, the material and the historical. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the seventh in a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It argues that the Bible has a radical view of history, the material world and the human person that set it apart from almost
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Deleuze and the biblical asymmetry of good and evil. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the sixth in a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It compares the way in which Deleuze draws an ethics and politics out of his ontology with the biblical creation-fall-redemption schema. To see all
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How does Deleuze know his view is true? Six points. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the fourth in a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). In this extract I discuss six important points to take into account if we want to understand how Deleuze thinks about truth. To see
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Deleuze, atheism, and belief in God. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the third in a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It comes at the end of a section on Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return, and it discusses what “belief in God” could mean from
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Why Deleuze’s philosophy fits its historical and cultural moment. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the second of a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It argues why Deleuze’s thought was appropriate for its historical and cultural moment, and offers some reflections on how to engage with a body
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Four reasons why Christians should bother with Deleuze. Extract from my forthcoming book on Deleuze and theology
This is the first of a series of extracts from my forthcoming book on Deleuze (to be published in the same P&R ‘Great Thinkers’ series as the Derrida and Foucault volumes). It comes from the first section of the Introduction, in which I give four reasons why Christians should pay attention to Deleuze’s thought, and